Little Brother - Cory Doctorow

[D_Davis]

Doctorow's new book is his first to be distributed as a professionally produced audio book.

Take a listen to Track 2, found on his website, about what you are able to do with this commercially sold audio book.

Little Brother » Download for Free

Doctorow continues to impress me with his progressive ways regarding publishing.

 

[DeepThought]

Very promising young SF author. Also I think he is good friends with Neil Gaiman and Charles Stross. Yes as you said; he makes all his books online for free, meaning more readers will be expose to his fiction hence more will be prone to by the paperbacks if they like it. I think this is a good strategy for up-and-coming talented new authors. Only recently Gaiman is trying this with American Gods (though he doesn't need to...)Doctorow had been doing this for a long time.

I've read his first two books; Down and Out of the Magic Kingdom and Eastern Standard Tribe on my PC for free about six years back. If memory serves, not your standard SF, very unigue...I think his first novel won a Hugo? Nebula? Anyway great author great books and thanks D_Davis for the link.

Cheers, DeepThought

 

[D_Davis]

I am not a huge fan of Doctorow's fiction, but I do think he is one of the brightest minds in the media field today. His thoughts on IP, the future of media, and all things concerning the digital frontier are spot on. He is level headed, he does not possess a false sense of entitlement, and he is incredibly well spoken.

His interview here:

http://www.trashotron.com/agony/audio/cory_doctorow_2007.mp3

Is amazing. One of the best things I've ever heard.

I only wish I liked his fiction as much as I like his non-fiction.

 

[linger]

I wonder if Little Brother will be coming out in Paperback soon? Or if, as a book also published for free online, it's insulated from the more "traditional" publishing progression.

 

[ktabic]

It already is available in paperback.

Hmm, weird, just checked amazon.com and they only have hardback that I can see. But I have the paperback (UK has both paperback and hardback).

How strange.

 

[jojajihisc]

His interview here:

http://www.trashotron.com/agony/audio/cory_doctorow_2007.mp3

Is amazing. One of the best things I've ever heard.

I only wish I liked his fiction as much as I like his non-fiction.

You're right. That was awesome. What he says about the Vista operating system is something people should probably know. I-Robot sounds like a good story too. I'll have to try some of his stuff.